TweenWeekly: Mitchel Musso

The signs at the entrance to Verizon Wireless Amphitheater delivered all kinds of legal mumbo jumbo the lawyers required: You may be filmed, you won't be paid if your face pops up on Disney Channel in a month or two, and if you don't like the deal, well, don't come in.
But who were they kidding? Who among the thousands of kids who filled the Irvine amphitheater on Friday would have passed up this once-in-a-lifetime chance to see Miley Cyrus – the tween superstar of recent years – deliver a concert of all-new Hannah Montana songs?
And so the junior brigade march into the venue, fuel up on $7 slices of pizza, dance the never-ending Cha-Cha Slide at the Radio Disney booth, buy Hannah Ts and concert programs, and then settle in for a night they'll not soon forget.

5:36 p.m. Radio Disney DJ Ernie D revs up the crowd for opening act Mitchel Musso. Wonder how he got the lucky gig opening for Miss Miley? He plays Oliver on "Hannah," and is now getting the Disney crossover-makeover
"All the guys at my school want to dress like this!" confides Juliet, my 11-year-old tween adviser. "This" means half-unlaced red high tops, skinny jeans that bunch up over said shoes, a faux-military jacket, and most of all, the shaggy hair that curls up at the bottom and must be constantly head-flipped out of the eyes.

6:15 p.m."Ladies and gentlemen," Ernie D shouts to a crowd that probably has an average age near 10. "Miley Cyrus as Hannah Montana!!!" And thousands of ear-piercing shrieks tear through the evening sky.

The new song she opens with – let's call it "All Right Here," for lack of a proper introduction – has that classic rock 'n' roll tribal drum beat (bump-bump-BUMP, bump-bump-bu-BUMP-bu-BUMP) with a bit a country twang to the vocals. Miley's got the blonde Hannah hair on, a sparkly purple T shirt and a multi-colored flouncy short party dress.

"It looks like candy," offers Anna Lily, my 7-year-old Disney Channel consultant, when asked how she'd describe the dress. "Like a candy outfit. Or rainbow sherbet." And, in fact, it does.
"How you guys doin'?" Miley asks the crowd at the end of the number. Dogs in Turtle Rock cover their ears with their paws as the shriek-o-meter goes off the scale.
"You'll see this everywhere," she tells them of the show that's being videotaped tonight. "You'll see it on Disney Channel, on videos, in the shows. You'll see it everywhere, so be sure to keep your energy up."

"Some of these songs we're going to do a couple of times, so by the end, you'll know the words."
6:26 p.m. Very quickly the audience realizes how a "concert music video taping" differs from a plain old concert. Miley's back out for her second song, which is the same as her first song. This, a producer or director-type tells us after the repeat, will be the pattern: two tapings of each song, followed by one with the cameras focused on the crowd, to get all the hand-waving, screaming, jumping-up-and-down fans.

6:44 p.m."Sorry I took so long, I made the wrong wardrobe choice," Miley tells us as she reappears for the next new song. 'So my bad."

This one she introduces as "Every Part Of Me," and it's a slow, countryish ballad, sung next to her guitar player, sitting on stools near the front of the stage.

The second take, a few minutes later, brings the cameraman on stage for close ups, which include – eventually edited out, we're sure – Miley flubbing the lyrics and apologizing midverse with an embarrassed grin and an "Oopsies!"

7:04 p.m. Third song, first take, second costume change. And, lucky us, Miley's choreographer to teach us the moves to "Let's Chill," a song that more or less literally is about ice cream and other frozen delights. "Do the ice cream freeze/strike a pose/Then you do the milkshake/shake it, shake it down low."

My two consultants momentarily set aside their critics' hats and do an admirable job of shaking it down low. This song has six backup dancers in cowboy duds, doing the choreography like a line dance, and it's a real crowd pleaser, probably one of the most popular of the eight new songs Miley performs tonight.

7:41 p.m. We guess that Song No. 4 is titled something like "Let's Get Crazy." It's a dance-rock number, with Miley coming out from behind a giant mirror ball, then roaming the stage singing the number.

When it ends, DJ Ernie D keeps the crowd fired up with screaming contests for the different sections of the amphitheater. We forgive him for that, though, when he tells the kids to shout, "I love you mom and dad" as thanks for bringing them out for the night.

8:08 p.m. Fifth song, and after "Let's Chill," the other hit of the night for my focus group of two. It's called "Super Girl," and it's all about the rock star teen – "You just wanna be like me" – who is "a super duper girl." It's a bouncy dance-pop number, and whenever it's unleashed on Disney Channel and Radio Disney, almost certain to saturate your ears for a month or two.
8:28 p.m. Miley slows it down again for another ballad that we guess might be called "Just A Girl." The glow sticks nearly everyone in the place has all wave slowly back and forth above the heads of the fans as lights ripple across the stage and backdrop.

Maybe it's the ballad, maybe it's the overall slow pace of the taping – this is the sixth song, played twice like all the others, in nearly two hours. Maybe it's that these are all new songs, not the Hannah hits. Or the fact that most of these tickets were free, given away in Radio Disney contests. (Though some were selling for $100 a pop on Craigslist.)

But our money is on "bedtime" as the reason why more and more fans are filtering out of Verizon now.

The pit, orchestra and loge sections had started out mostly full, the terrace and lawn sections left empty. But now, it feels like half the fans that started the night here are gone.
8:50 p.m. Only three songs left, we're told by way of urging us to hang in there. "Let's Do This" is the seventh new tune. This one includes a second take that ends with fireworks falling from the ceiling of the stage. Exciting!

9:05 p.m. Time for another ballad, this one perhaps called "Somebody Help Me," or maybe "Everything I Do." We're on maybe our fifth costume change of the night now, but we've noticed that she's worn the same fingerless rhinestone-encrusted red glove on her right hand all night long. It's the little details you want to know, right? So there you go!

9:24 p.m. Finally, a riff we all recognize! "The Best Of Both Worlds" is the theme song for the show, and all the audience members remaining – maybe a third of the original crowd at this point – jumps to their feet to sing along. But what's this? It's over after no more than a minute, just a snippet of the only tune anyone had ever heard before.
Would it have killed her to have blazed through "We Got The Party" or one of the other older Hannah hits as a bonus for everyone who'd stuck it out? Ah, well, it's pretty darn cold and past our bedtime, too.

Now it's just wait until these songs pop up on TV, and see if we can see our smiling faces in the crowd. After all, who cares if you didn't get paid for your appearance in the video: You got to co-star with Miley in concert, and surely that's worth plenty on the playground come Monday.

-Radio Disney

"One and the Same" (Selena Gomez & Demi Lovato from Princess Protection Program) -3:00
"Live to Party" (Jonas Brothers from JONAS) -2:50
"So Far, So Great" (Demi Lovato from Sonny With a Chance) -2:14
"Let It Go" (Mitchel Musso & Tiffany Thornton from Hatching Pete) -2:36
"Hero in Me" (Emily Osment from Dadnapped) -2:20
"Let's Get Crazy" (Hannah Montana from Hannah Montana) -2:35
"Gitchee Gitchee Goo" (Vincent Martella & Ashley Tisdale from Phineas and Ferb) -1:59
"The Girl Can't Help It" (Mitchel Musso from Princess Protection Program) -3:22
"Everything Is Not What It Seems" (Selena Gomez from Wizards of Waverly Place) -0:50
"This Is Me" (Demi Lovato & Joe Jonas from Camp Rock) -3:07
"Breaking Free" (Vanessa Hudgens & Zac Efron from High School Musical) -3:26
"Fabulous" (Ashley Tisdale & Lucas Grabeel from High School Musical 2) -3:01
"Run It Back Again" (Corbin Bleu from Minutemen) -2:51
"Start the Party [Remix]" (Jordan Francis from Camp Rock) -2:46
"Dance Me If You Can" (The Cheetah Girls from The Cheetah Girls: One World) -3:30

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